28 KINGSCLERE 



As will be gathered from the foregoing letters, 

 in order to relieve the invalid while he was slowly ap- 

 proaching convalescence of all anxiety respecting the 

 horses, they were removed to Dover's, and remained 

 with that trainer until the commencement of 1866. 



The Palmer may be said to have been in many 

 respects Sir Joseph Hawley's most remarkable horse 

 at that time. Before, however, we deal with The 

 Palmer, there is the story of Satyr to be related, one 

 of the most extraordinary in Porter's experience, 

 and more even than the account of the rise and 

 fall of Bedminster entitled to a separate niche in 

 the narrative. Satyr, 2 yrs. old (by Marsyas out 

 of Diomedia), entered to be sold for 100/., won 

 a plate at Newmarket. He was heavily backed by 

 the stable ; indeed, Mr. T. E. Walker afterwards 

 informed Porter that they won 7,000/. on the 

 race. Sir Joseph Hawley, who was second with 

 Red Shoes, claimed Satyr, and Lord Westmor- 

 land claimed the second. Satyr ran a dozen times 

 as a two-year-old, occasionally in the best com- 

 pany, but he was a disappointing animal. For his 

 new owner he ran third in the Spencer Plate at 

 Northampton, carrying 6 st. 12 lb. (Mr. Pitt, 4 yrs., 

 7 st. 13 lb., first, and Miller's Maid, 5 st. 12 lb., third), 

 and he won a handicap at Ascot in the following 

 May. However, putting this and that together, 

 at home and abroad, the stable were led to 

 believe that in Satyr they had a good thing for 

 the Cambridgeshire ; in fact, they satisfied them- 

 selves that they could win. All hopes, however, 



